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Appointment at Clinicare
Trevor Gaze has joined Clinicare to take up the new role of business development manager, north. He ...
Cox eyes SME lines
Lloyd's motor insurer Cox this week expressed an interest in diversifying from its core private and ...
Industry urged: challenge No 10
The institutional investment arms of insurers must challenge government's "completely contradictory"...
Appointment at Belfor
Disaster recovery expert Belfor has made Lisa Masterson area client co-ordinator for Northern Irelan...
Appointment at Medico-Legal
Nick DeHaan has joined Medico-Legal as operations manager. He has more than 20 years of experience w...
FSSC plans degree in insurance
The Financial Services Skills Council has said it aims to create industry-standard qualifications an...
National brokers lose market share
Figures from the Association of British Insurers indicate that the UK's largest insurance brokers ha...
Broker consolidator Oval appoints Richard Wigmore
Broker consolidator Oval has appointed Richard Wigmore as director of its personal accident and trav...
Results of survey by Accenture
The majority of Americans believe that insurance fraud occurs because people think they can get away...
Through the internet maze with Richard Griffiths
I was surprised the other day when searching for travel insurance that the top sponsored link on Goo...
Sale of the Lloyd's insurance building delayed
The £240m sale of the Lloyd's insurance building has been delayed because potential buyer Shelbourne...
Appointment at The Regency Group
Jason Block has become national training and field support manager for furniture and upholstery repa...
Appointment at Cunningham Lindsey
Gary Liptrot has joined Cunningham Lindsey as business development director. Mr Liptrot brings 30 ye...
Motor giant Ford selects Pinnacle's training programme
Motor giant Ford has selected Pinnacle's 'Proficiency Solutions' insurance training programme to pre...
Hannover Re singled out
Germany's Hannover Re has been singled out as the best overall company in the North American reinsur...
EU funds SME risk training initiative
A pan-European project that aims to develop an internet-based risk management training programme for...
Protocol launch sparks call to stop mitigation pressure
Nick Balcombe, chief executive of the Balcombe Group, criticised the new Association of British Insu...
Industry warned: what the BRTF wants, it gets
At last week's Post Magazine Claims Club seminar, the Better Regulation Task Force gave claims managers the inside track on its recent compensation system report; and the soon-to-be- published ABI/CILA claims protocol was given its first unofficial…
Appointment at Chartered Insurance Institute
The Chartered Insurance Institute has appointed four senior personnel. Jamie Heath joins as director...
Lehmann to take on Zurich US commercial role
Zurich Financial Services Group has appointed Axel Lehmann to the position of chief executive officer ofZurich North America Commercial, effective September 2004.
Wellington swoops for Axa arm
Wellington Underwriting has announced plans to expand into US Specialty business through the proposed acquisition of Axa Corporate Solutions Excess and Surplus Lines Insurance, a Delaware domiciled excess and surplus lines insurance company.
Rudolph Guliani speaks on terrorism risk
Former Mayor of New York, Rudolph Guliani, in a speech to the attendees of the World Insurance Forum in Bermuda, said that the insurance industry must help the private sector to address the issues of security and business continuity in order to be ready…
S&P maintains negative outlook for US reinsurers
Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) is maintaining its negative outlook on the US reinsurance market, despite recent improvements in underwriting performance.
Gen Cologne Re gets China license
General Cologne Re, a subsidiary of the General Cologne Reinsurance Group, has been issued a license by the Chinese regulatory authorities to operate as a composite reinsurer across the country.